You wrote:

The context this was being discussed in, was trying to make _plaintext_ look like _ciphertext_. The operator of a data haven or remailer might hypothetically want to ensure that all text he dealt with was

encrypted.

So your method wouldn't do anything in that area.

The discussion was one of whether you could distinguish plaintext from cyphertext by doing a statitical analysis of the datastream, i.e. can you tell one from the other without actually reading each message. The answer is no. Dale H.